Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

102 Photoplay Magazine Lasky production staff. Ella Hall, who formerly played with Leonard, remains at Universal City as a Bluebird star. MEANEST MAN NOTE: Charles Miller, Ince director, takes company to Santa Monica and uses his own home for a location. Has J. Frank Burke, one of the company, filmed behind a lawnmower, in rapid action. Has several retakes by which time the lawn is thoroughly sheared, whereupon Miller brazenly admits that there was no film in the camera the first few times and that his lawn needed mowing anyhow. FAMOUS Players lost Mary Pickford but gained two other Pickfords, Lottie and Jack, neither of whom is a stranger to Famous cameras. Jack is to be starred as Willie Baxter in Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen." Lottie celebrated her return to the old home in "The Reward of Patience." H E R B E R T BRENON lost the first court round in his suit against William Fox when a New York judge denied him an injunction to prevent Fox from exhibiting "A Daughter of the Gods" without giving Brenon credit on the screen as its author and producer. The court held that Brenon's onfy claim was based on an oral agreement. He will carry the case to a higher court. ADDITIONAL legal batteries UNIVERSAL CITY was deserted during the month by Matt Moore and Jane Gail, who trekked it back East after completing their scenes in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," in which both are to be starred. Mr. Moore, who is a brother of the Misses Alice Joyce and Mary Pickford, expects to become a producer on his own hook. OTHER Universal defections of the month were Andrew Arbuckle — Maclyn's brother but not Roscoe's — and Charles Gunn. Arbuckle joined the Lockwood Allison company to play characters and the gentleman with the preparedness name will work under the Ince colors. ZEN A KEEFE and Earl Metcalfe recently completed a fifteen-episode serial for the Niagara Film Company at Buffalo which is to be released through the Times of that city. Its title is, "Perils of Our Girl Reporters." ALDEN, enjoys the distinction of having played in more Griffith films than any other player, has quit Fine Arts. She is now in New York with the Mary Pickford Company. E WOLF HOP MA3£ D were focused on Fox later when Valkyrien, otherwise Baroness DeWitz, brought suit for $25,000 damages, alleging that the producer had induced her to leave Thanhouser on promises of starring her as an exceptional luminary in his thespian constellation, and that he had failed to "deliver." Her one appearance for Fox was in "The Unwelcome Mother." STUDIO SCANDAL: Robert Vaughn, one of the supporting cast in "The Fimitive" with Florence LaBadie was christened Robert Alfred Paul Vaughn Bergen Von Skinski and his father was a Polish count. Dustin Farnum (at right) returning from a fish hunt at Catalina. He has just snared a ISO pouiui sea bass. pleted his remunerative year "in the pictures" and is preparing for an invasion of the vocal stage. He should do better there, even if not in a pecuniary way. VINCENT SERRANO has temporarily abandoned the stage to participate in his second picture play. "A Modern Monte Christo." at Thanhouscr's New Rochelle plant. His other screened appearance was as the heavy in "Lydia Gilmore" with Pauline Frederick. Li t. OS ANGELES is to have its studio directory increased by the addition of the Ivan Film Company, which will quit the East with the arrival of the first cold wave. Anna Nilsson and Rose Coghlan will probably be in the first consignment of talent shipped out to the land of oranges.